Museum
Docent and Volunteer Program
The Denison Museum has launched a new partnership through the recently formed Granville Museum Consortium, consisting of the Denison Museum, Granville Historical Society Museum, Granville Lifestyle Museum, and the Robbins Hunter Museum/Avery Downer House. The Consortium has been organized to pool resources with the collective mission of investigating and sharing culture and history from the local to the global. Museum Leadership at each of Granville's four small museums have come together to organize joint exhibitions (the "Art for War's Sake" poster exhibit, for example) as well as joint marketing of our programs and hours. In addition, recognizing a significant need for community support in the form of volunteers, the consortium is starting a combined docent/volunteer program.
The Granville Museum Consortium Docent/Volunteer Program is intended to give more to existing volunteers and encourage additional volunteerism--to "pay it forward." Members of the Docent/Volunteer Program will have access to special educational and social programs offered every other Monday in the year to come, taking breaks for holidays. Each museum will take turns hosting the morning programs which run from 9 AM to noon. Educational programs will be led by local and regional experts and university professors in such topics as Granville history, special touring exhibitions of contemporary Korean ceramics, Victorian culture, Greek revival architecture, Tupperware design and the 1950s kitchen, and even Central American Indian artifacts!
Docents and volunteers participating in this program will be asked to help the museum(s) of their choice with such activities as providing tours, guarding galleries during museum hours, assisting in object research and documentation efforts, helping host events, coordinating mailings, and distribution of community announcements, among other tasks. These programs will support in the Docent/Volunteer's development, background, and confidence in offering tours of the historical structures and exhibitions offered at Granville museums to school groups and other museum visitors who come to experience Granville's cultural destinations.
Interested individuals may join the Docent/Volunteer program at any time. For more information, please contact the Denison Museum at 740-587-6255 or send an email to schotta@denison.edu to sign up. You may also fill out the Docent Contact Information form and mail it to Amber Schott at the Denison Museum.